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From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Initiative stuff
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 14:01:57 EDT
>>>>> "JCN" == Jason Carter, Nightstalker <CARTER@***.EDU>
writes:

JCN> Here's the highest possible intiative I could ever imagine:
JCN> Speed Demon Physcial Adept with help from the Quickener Mage

[...]

JCN> Maximum Initiative Roll = 59! Pretty damn close to 60, but that
JCN> requires the player to roll sixes on seven dice. The average
JCN> would be only 41.

There is also a rule somewhere [don't have books handy to check] that
you only get 4 actions, maximum, regardless of your Initiative total.
[This may actually be a clarification from the DLoH].

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